"China has overtaken the US in the global market for 'open' artificial intelligence models, gaining a crucial edge over how the powerful technology is used around the world."
I’ll be hanging out at our poster on membership inference, but in the same slot Brian Lester will present our work on “The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text” (poster 102)! [https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209]
1/2 We've heard of the curse of dimensionality. But what about the curse of multilinguality? "If you try to pack more languages into the same size model, they are each going to degrade," said @shaynelongpre.bsky.social of @mit.edu at the Simons Institute.
Beijing-backed technology gains ground as American giants hold fast to ‘closed’ AI strategies
Why now: Open models are more capable, more global, and more strategic. Governance, competition policy, and research norms need accurate, transparent ecosystem analysis.